Fables Of Abundance

Jackson Lears is the author of No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920, and the editor (with Richard Fox) of The Culture of Consumption and The Power of Culture. He is professor of history at Rutgers University.

• * Introduction The Reconfiguration of Wealth: From Fecund Earth To Efficient Factory * The Lyric of Plenty * The Modernization of Magic * The Stabilization of Sorcery * The Disembodiment of Abundance The Containment Of Carnival: Advertising And American Social Values From The Patent Medicine Era To The Consolidation Of Corporate Power * The Merger of Intimacy and Publicity * The Perfectionist Project * The New Basis of Civilization * Trauma, Denial, Recovery Art, Truth, And Humbug: The Search For Form And Meaning In A Commodity Civilization * The Problem of Commercial Art in a Protestant Culture * The Courtship of Avant-Garde and Kitsch * The Pursuit of the Real * The Things Themselves